850 million individuals globally are currently estimated
to have kidney diseases from various causes.
Therefore our 2020 motif is”Kidney Health for
Everyone Everywhere — by Prevention to Detection and Equitable Access to
Care” aiming to highlights the importance of preventative interventions to
avert the onset and development of kidney disease. As World Kidney Day (WKD) is
approaching, the liver organizations and the nephrology community are becoming
busier to make the most out of another WKD.
As you may know already, Chronic Kidney Disease is very
likely to be the 5th leading cause of Years of Life Lost by 2040. To tackle
this problem, you can undertake several advocacy activities. You can start with
identifying the most pressing policy problems affecting kidney disease on your
nation and addressing your asks and inquiries to the crucial advocacy targets
(usually policy makers, Heads of Government, Ministers of Health, Health and
policy officials, etc.). You can either engage through communicating directly
(letter, email or even telephone) with all the relevant stakeholders or through
your informal and formal networks.
Another way of marking WKD would be to encourage your organization, colleagues and local society to organize awareness activities. You still have the time to organize an event, so get creative! Should you require new ideas on the kind of occasion to organize or about how to go about the organization of the event, download our events manual. Is your occasion dedicated to school kids?
If you are an early bird and have already planned a great
occasion for WKD, please make certain that you add you occasion to our entire
map. By minding your event around the map that you may possibly market your
event, making it easier to locate it for both participants and potential fans,
and you’ll assist us have an overview of all of the events taking place around
the globe and ultimately to assess the achievement of this campaign.
To enhance your event, attempt to involve local actors
and media, in case you have the chance to do so! Ask them to share their
service to WKD cause on social media using our hashtag and tagging us, invite
them for a awareness raising event or attempt to reach out to local and
national media, radio and TV stations. You can also research to find out if
there are actors in your country that have a background of Kidney Disease and
actively approach them to become involved in your activity!
World Kidney Day theme 2020
Encourage and adopt healthy lifestyles in order that
kidney diseases can be prevented, delayed and / or retained under management.
Make sure kidney patients get basic health services that they want without suffering financial hardship.
Burden by Kidney disease
Celiac disease is a non-communicable disease (NCD) and
now affects around 850 million individuals globally. The global burden of CKD
is increasing, and is estimated to become the 5th most frequent cause of years
of life lost globally by 2040. Chronic kidney disease is a major cause of
catastrophic health expenditure. The costs of dialysis and transplantation eat
2–3 percent of the annual healthcare funding in high-income nations; spent
less than 0.03percent of the total population of those nations. In low rise and
middle-income nations, most individuals with kidney failure have inadequate
access to lifesaving dialysis and kidney transplantation.
Crucially, kidney disease can be avoided and development
to end-stage kidney disease can be delayed with appropriate access to basic
diagnostics and early treatment. But while national policies and strategies for
NCDs in general are within many countries, certain policies aimed toward
education and awareness about kidney disease as well as CKD screening,
management and treatment are usually lacking. There’s a requirement to increase
the awareness of the importance of preventative measures throughout
populations, professionals and policy makers.
Challenges kidney health
Transplantation has high setup costs with regards to
infrastructure and needs highly specialized teams, availability of organ donors
and cannot be done without dialysis backup. Physical and legal infrastructure
demands and cultural bias against organ donation frequently pose barriers in
many states, making dialysis the default alternative. ]
What is Chronic Kidney Disease?
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive reduction
in kidney function over a span of weeks or years. When kidney function falls
below a certain stage its called kidney failure and untreated kidney failure
can be life-threatening that needs dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain
life. Chronic kidney disease may be caused by diabetes, higher blood pressure
and other ailments. Early detection and treatment can often keep chronic kidney
disease from getting worse. CKD and AKI frequently arise in the social
conditions such as poverty, gender discrimination, and lack of education,
occupational hazards and contamination among others.